Download PDF by Philip Carr: A Glossary of Phonology (Glossaries in Linguistics)

This pocket-sized alphabetical advisor introduces the diversity of phenomena studied in phonology and the most theoretical frameworks for undertaking phonological research. The entries are a concise and transparent review of 1 of the most components in linguistic research.

Quantity is a big study area in semantics, syntax and morphology. although, no present idea of quantity is appropriate to all 3 fields. during this paintings, the writer argues unified thought is not just attainable, yet worthwhile for the research of common Grammar. via insightful research of unusual info, the writer indicates that one and an identical function set is implicated in semantic and morphological quantity phenomena alike, with syntax appearing because the conduit among the 2.

Drawing at the conceptual gear of cognitive grammar, this article goals to carry order into the array of makes use of by way of supplying a unified semantic characterization of the dative case which subsumes either "lexically ruled" and "free" datives.

Extra resources for A Glossary of Phonology (Glossaries in Linguistics)

Example text

In the Kwa language Igbo, the following sentence has a sequence of alternating high and low tones, marked here with the superscript diacritics ´ and `: o´ na` a´ŋ wa` u´nja` ´gwè (‘He is trying to ride a bicycle’). The last high tone, on the first syllable of ´gwè, is close in pitch level to the first low tone, on the word na`. Also known as declination. downstep A phenomenon found in tone languages, whereby a high tone has been lowered because of the effect of a preceding low tone which is not phonetically realised.

An example is the ‘ ’ diacritic used to denote aspiration in voiceless stops, as in the English word tip: [t p]. Some diacritics are superscript diacritics, such as the one we have just seen; they are written above the relevant symbol. Others are subscript diacritics; they are placed below the relevant symbol, as in the case of the diacritic for Advanced Tongue Root: [e] denotes an [e] with ATR. Some diacritics run through the symbols in question, as in the case of the velarisation diacritic used to represent ‘dark l’ and other velarised sounds; full in English is often transcribed as [fυ ], although the IPA now represents velarised consonants with a superscript diacritic: [fυl ] dialect see accent diphthong A vowel sound in which there is a transition from one vowel quality to another within a single syllable nucleus, as in the English word [ba] (buy).

In such languages, there will be other suffixes which are not dominant, as in [a-mυj-], where the aspectual suffix undergoes ATR harmony. Such suffixes are said to be recessive. dorsal A term used to describe sounds in which the body of the tongue (the dorsum) features. The term subsumes velar and uvular sounds. It is used as a feature in theories of distinctive features, and as a node in theories of feature geometry. 46 A GLOSSARY OF PHONOLOGY downdrift A phenomenon found in tone languages in which the tones become progressively lower as the utterance goes on, so that a word with a high tone which is uttered near the end of the utterance may have the same pitch, or even a lower pitch, than a word uttered with a low tone early in the utterance.